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  • During the 2021-2022 academic year, 149 PLU students participated in global and local study away programs to acquire new perspectives on critical global issues, advance their language and intercultural skills, form valuable new contacts and lasting connections, and advance their academic and career trajectory. Due…

    Wang Center Photo & Video Contest Winners 2022 Posted by: Holly Senn / March 30, 2022 March 30, 2022 During the 2021-2022 academic year, 149 PLU students participated in global and local study away programs to acquire new perspectives on critical global issues, advance their language and intercultural skills, form valuable new contacts and lasting connections, and advance their academic and career trajectory. Due to the worldwide pandemic, 46 students returned home early in spring of 2020 and

  • Elijah Paez ’24 is a double major in  environmental studies  and  mathematics . While at PLU, he founded  Birders of PLU , served as a  Peace Scholar , and  studied abroad in Oxford, England, and Oslo, Norway. We recently met with Paez to learn more…

    what you can build from it, or what patterns you can find and connections you can make. When did you decide on environmental studies? My Writing 101 course was “Evolutionary Biology and Taxonomy.” The purpose of the class was to learn scientific technical writing, but I was surprised at how arbitrary taxonomy is. That got me interested in animal studies and a critical lens of the sciences, which is why I added environmental studies. The first thing I noticed on the bus from the airport [in Oxford

  • Elijah Paez ’24 is a double major in environmental studies and mathematics . While at PLU, he founded Birders of PLU , served as a Peace Scholar , and studied abroad in Oxford, England, and Oslo, Norway. We recently met with Paez to learn more…

    set of premises, and find out what you can build from it, or what patterns you can find and connections you can make. When did you decide on environmental studies? My Writing 101 course was “Evolutionary Biology and Taxonomy.” The purpose of the class was to learn scientific technical writing, but I was surprised at how arbitrary taxonomy is. That got me interested in animal studies and a critical lens of the sciences, which is why I added environmental studies. "The first thing I noticed on the

  • Lutheran Studies Conference, scheduled for Sept. 25, will be devoted to Justice in Society: Lutheran Sources of Social Change. Martin Luther, the progenitor of Lutheran higher education, argued that God’s justice is a life-giving justice for all people regardless of gender, race or ethnicity, social or economic status—a justice that should suffuse human relationships and the education of future leaders in society. Indeed, he was among the first of his generation to protest business, banking and

  • Professor Emeritus | Innovation Studies | Writer.

    Robert Marshall Wells Professor Emeritus Website: https://www.robertmarshallwells.com Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Term of Service: 2003-2023 Education M.B.A., Foster School of Business, University of Washington Seattle, 2021 Certificate in Documentary Arts, Emphasis in documentary film, Duke University, 2013 Ph.D., American Studies, University of Maryland-College Park, 2005 M.A., Liberal Studies –with emphases in Social and Public Policy, Georgetown University, Washington

  • Environmental Studies faculty and staff.

    Michael Behrens Director of Environmental Studies Full Profile he/him/his 253-535-7565 behrenmd@plu.edu

  • Innovation Studies faculty and staff.

    Michael J. Halvorson Benson Family Chair in Business and Economic History Full Profile 253-535-8258

  • Lutheran Studies faculty and staff.

    Marit Trelstad Endowed Chair of Lutheran Studies Full Profile 253-535-7232 marit.trelstad@plu.edu

  • This program offers students the opportunity to develop and complete personally designed, interdisciplinary majors that are grounded in the liberal arts and build connections with professional

    253.535.7209 www.plu.edu/individualized-majors/ bixelp@plu.edu Patricia Bixel, Ph.D., Interim Dean Individualized Major in Interdisciplinary StudiesThis program offers students the opportunity to develop and complete personally designed, interdisciplinary majors that are grounded in the liberal arts and build connections with professional programs. Students may apply for the Individualized Major in Interdisciplinary Studies at any time during their years at PLU, but it is preferred they do so

  • Welcome to the Fall 2020 Global Studies Capstones. 

    2020 Global Studies CapstonesWelcome to the Fall 2020 Global Studies Capstones.  Juliana AndrewThis project began and ended on the ancestral lands of the Dena’ina Athabaskan people, and would not have been possible without the support of family, friends, professors, and community members. I am endlessly grateful for those who made time to discuss, research, and share their Sacred with me. Sacred Relations: Sanctity and Sovereignty in the Tlingit PotlatchImagine a world in which issues of